#plagiarism

Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born. ↗

— Robert K. Merton

#plagiarism #humor

The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#originality #plagiarism #nature

Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home. ↗

— Zelda Fitzgerald

#believe #fitzgerald #his #home #how

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. ↗

— Guy Debord

#embraces #erases #expressions #false #his

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#biggest #biggest thing #hollywood #plagiarism #thing

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#down #erudition #moderns #plagiarism #steal

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

#either #plagiarism #revolution

I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism. ↗

— Will McDonough

#also #circulation #due #every #i

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#many #plagiarism #research #steal #you

Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism. ↗

— George A. Moore

#man #plagiarism #something #taking #worse